( 1798 ) 



bobfago laxiflora, bell-flowered 

 Borage. 



C/«ss ««(/ Order. 

 Pentandria Monogynia. 

 Generic Character. 

 Cor. rotata : fancc radiis clausa. 



Specific Character and Synonyms. 



Borago laxiflora ; foliis omnibus alternis ovatis acuminatis 



ciliatis, pedunculis axillaribus solitariis unifloris folio 



longioribus. 

 Borrago laxiflora. Dccand. Flore Franc, v. 5. p. 422. 



Desfont. Cat. Hort. Par. Fischer Cat. Hort. Gorenk. 



p. 21. 

 Anchusa laxiflora. Ft. Franc, ed. 3. n. 2728. Lois. Fl. 



Gall. 1. p. 106. 



This plant differs from every other species of Borago with 

 which we are acquainted, by its bell-shaped corolla, not very 

 unlike that of Campanula rotundijolia. Its stem is weak, 

 assurgent, very hispid, with stiff shining deflexed hairs; 

 leaves ovate-acuminate, sessile, hispid : margin undulate- 

 crenate, ciliate ; peduncles axillary, solitary, one-ilowered, 

 longer than the leaf, recurved when in fruit. 



The first notice we have of this species is from M . De- 

 candolle, who described it from dried specimens collected 

 by M . Labillardiere, in the Island of Corsica. This author 

 was at first induced to refer it to Anchusa, because it ap- 

 peared to correspond better with the character given of that 

 genus by Gartner than with that of Borago. But Borago 

 indica, the species described by Gartner, Decandolle ob- 

 serves, belongs properly to the genus Trichodesma of 

 Brown. 



We 



